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Hi Guys, next lesson we will be using voicethread to anaylse and practise a past exam question on Natural Landscapes. We have got you all registered and some of you even managed to upload an audio sample. Once we have all completed our comments we will have a smorgasbord of exam interpretations and responses to learn from. Great stuff!

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Now that you have completed a short answer quiz about the natural processes in the South Island High Country, it is time to have a go at a long answer that requires qualitative information.

Go to the following NZQA page with past Level 2 exam questions: Choose your own Natural Landscape question and develop an answer over the next two lessons.

Your answer needs to be about the SIHC, but you can use questions from the New Zealand Setting or the Continental Setting.

Remember to use Mr Cranston’s Handy Geo Writing Guide. and What essay ‘command words’ mean.

Please submit your selected question and answer as a comment.

Test your knowledge of natural processes in the South Island High Country with ‘The MIGHTY SIHC Quiz’. It is hosted on Moodle so you will need to be a member of TeamGeo to play it. I will be emailed your first attempt results automatically, you can then have more ungraded attempts. Good Luck!

In class we have been talking about the different factors that influence climate in New Zealand. We have also gathered some information about the climatic characteristics of named places in the SIHC.

Your task today is (to be completed in a Google Doc):

1. view the climograph data (in the embedded spreadsheet) and describe the climate for each location.
2. try to match the locations with the named settlement.
3. Choose two of the SIHC towns and explain how and why their climates differ.

Extension task:

Try to create a climograph in Excel using one set of climate data

Climatic Data SIHC - Find Documents

Over the last few lessons we have been learning how the Southern Alps were formed during the Kaikoura Orogeny. Now we will look at the processes that wear the Southern Alps down.

Your task:

Explain how a glacier works by writing a concise paragraph using the following words: submit it as a comment to this post. Try to put the key words in bold.Who can write it in the least words, but still make sense!

When you have completed your task, see if you can add THREE words to our Moodle glossary. Click here

Today we will begin looking at our second Natural Landscape - The South Island High Country. This is basically the land above 1000m in the South Island. Its a pretty big area, in fact it covers 70% of the South Island (this fact surprises many residents of the largely flat North Island)

Your first task is to do a little mapping. We will create a layer of SIHC features in Google Earth. Your job is to:

1. Create a new Google Earth layer called ‘SIHC’ with seven folders
   
2. Locate and label the following with appropriate icons and organise into folders:

Once you have finished, I would like you to leave a comment about how mapping this way is better or worse than using paper and an atlas